Ukrainian Evening
Український вечір
Krachkovskyi's best-known Ukrainian subject and one of his most widely reproduced pictures, showing a village at dusk under a warm, dying light. It belongs to the late-nineteenth-century vogue for the 'Ukrainian evening' motif popularised by Kuindzhi.
Related Works
At the Well
A village well with figures, painted in Krachkovskyi's academic-realist manner two years after he was made an academician. Wikimedia Commons files it under paintings of Ukraine by the artist.
Before the Thunderstorm. At the End of Summer
A large late-summer landscape of 1888 with a storm building over open country, and one of Krachkovskyi's most ambitious canvases by scale. Held by the Odesa Art Museum.
Twilight on the River
An 1889 river scene at dusk, from the same years as Krachkovskyi's Ukrainian harvest and evening subjects.
The Melon Field (Bakhcha)
A southern melon and watermelon plantation under a high summer sun, one of the two works most often cited as Krachkovskyi's Ukrainian subjects. The picture is dated by Wikimedia Commons only to the 1890s or 1900s.